A tabu search-based heuristic for a new capacitated cyclic inventory routing problem

International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 491-504

  Seifbarghy, Mehdi ^a   Samadi, Zahra ^a  

^a ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Economic order quantity; Inventory routing; Operational research; Tabu search; Vehicle multi tours

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904812462     PISSN: 17575850     EISSN: 17575869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMOR.2014.063159     Document Type: Article

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